Peraton

Senior Database Administrator

Peraton  •  $104k - $166k/yr  •  United States (Remote)  •  2 hours ago
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Job Description

Responsibilities

Peraton is seeking a Senior Database Administrator (DBA) focused on the operational reliability of database platforms across AWS Commercial and AWS GovCloud environments. This is a hands-on role that combines software engineering practices with database operations to ensure data platforms are reliable, scalable, secure, and highly available.

The Senior DBA will define and monitor SLIs and SLOs for database services and own their reliability, availability, performance, capacity planning, recoverability, and operational lifecycle. The role will lead incident response, perform root-cause analysis, and drive automation that reduces manual work and eliminates operational toil. This person will also partner closely with platform engineering, security, and application development teams to ensure database services meet application requirements and security standards and are delivered in a consistent, reliable, and supportable manner.

Work Location: Remote

Shift Schedule: 8am – 5pm Eastern Standard Time (EST)

What you will do:

  • Operate production databases on AWS, including RDS and Aurora (PostgreSQL and MySQL), as well as self-managed MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, and SQL Server on VMs as needed.
  • Administer DynamoDB, ElastiCache (Redis), and OpenSearch supporting application workloads and caching.
  • Own database architecture, performance tuning, capacity planning, and right-sizing.
  • Manage backup, restore, snapshot, and point-in-time recovery strategies, and validate RTO/RPO through scheduled restore and failover testing.
  • Design, test, and maintain high-availability and disaster recovery solutions, including Multi-AZ, cross-region replication, and documented failover procedures.
  • Define and maintain SLIs/SLOs for database availability, latency, replication lag, and query performance.
  • Monitor and tune database performance using Dynatrace, Datadog, and OpenTelemetry, including query performance, saturation, replication health, alerting, and automated remediation.
  • Lead production incident response, including troubleshooting, service restoration, root-cause analysis, and post-incident corrective actions.
  • Manage the database lifecycle, including upgrades, patching, configuration changes, maintenance, and technology refreshes.
  • Improve database resilience through capacity planning, performance testing, failure-mode analysis, disaster recovery, and recovery testing.
  • Identify and address reliability risks and technical debt using reliability metrics, incident trends, capacity data, and service health indicators.
  • Automate database operations using an everything-as-code approach to improve consistency, repeatability, testing, recovery, and efficiency.
  • Partner with Platform Engineering and application teams to define operational requirements, improve reusable infrastructure, and strengthen database reliability and operability.

Technologies and Skillsets:

  • AWS data services (RDS, Aurora for PostgreSQL and MySQL, DynamoDB, ElastiCache) and core services (EC2, VPC, IAM, S3, KMS, Secrets Manager, CloudWatch)
  • Relational database administration: PostgreSQL and MySQL, with Oracle or SQL Server experience valued
  • Advanced SQL, query optimization, execution plan analysis, and index and schema design
  • High availability, replication, backup and recovery, and disaster recovery design and testing
  • Dynatrace, Datadog, and OpenTelemetry for database and application observability
  • Terraform and Ansible / Ansible Tower for infrastructure and configuration automation
  • GitLab, Jenkins, and database schema migration tooling such as Liquibase or Flyway
  • Sonatype Nexus and Aqua Security
  • Python, Bash, or Go
  • RHEL Linux administration
  • Windows Server

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications

  • Must be a U.S. Citizen with the ability to obtain and maintain the required Public Trust level clearance.
  • Bachelor's degree and 8 years of experience, a Master's degree with 6 years of experience, or a High School Diploma or equivalent and 12 years of experience.
  • 5+ years of database administration, data platform engineering, or SRE experience with significant production database ownership.
  • Hands-on production experience operating database services on AWS at scale.
  • DoD 8570/8140 compliant certification.
  • Demonstrated experience with backup, recovery, and disaster recovery execution, including validated restore testing.
  • Demonstrated experience defining and implementing SLOs, SLIs, and error budgets for data services.
  • Proven incident management experience, including on-call ownership and root-cause analysis.
  • Excellent problem-solving skills and strong communication, with the ability to present performance and reliability insights to technical and non-technical audiences.

Preferred Qualifications

  • AWS Certified Database Specialty, Solutions Architect, or SysOps Administrator.
  • PostgreSQL or MySQL professional certification.
  • HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate.
  • Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA), or experience running stateful workloads on Kubernetes or OpenShift (ROSA).
  • Dynatrace or Datadog vendor certification.
  • Experience with database automation at scale, including fleet-wide patching and self-service provisioning.
  • Experience operating multi-tenant data platforms with tenant isolation and noisy-neighbor mitigation.
  • Experience supporting FedRAMP, FISMA, or DoD-accredited environments.

Peraton Overview

Peraton is a next-generation national security company that drives missions of consequence spanning the globe and extending to the farthest reaches of the galaxy. As the world’s leading mission capability integrator and transformative enterprise IT provider, we deliver trusted, highly differentiated solutions and technologies to protect our nation and allies. Peraton operates at the critical nexus between traditional and nontraditional threats across all domains: land, sea, space, air, and cyberspace. The company serves as a valued partner to essential government agencies and supports every branch of the U.S. armed forces. Each day, our employees do the can’t be done by solving the most daunting challenges facing our customers. Visit peraton.com to learn how we’re keeping people around the world safe and secure.

Target Salary Range

$104,000 - $166,000. This represents the typical salary range for this position. Salary is determined by various factors, including but not limited to, the scope and responsibilities of the position, the individual’s experience, education, knowledge, skills, and competencies, as well as geographic location and business and contract considerations. Depending on the position, employees may be eligible for overtime, shift differential, and a discretionary bonus in addition to base pay.

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EEO: Equal opportunity employer, including disability and protected veterans, or other characteristics protected by law.

Peraton

About Peraton

At Peraton, we're at the forefront of delivering the next big thing every day. We're the partner of choice to help solve some of the world's most daunting challenges, delivering bold, new solutions to keep people around the world safer and more secure.

How do we do it? By thinking differently. We're not mired in the past. We look at all problems with fresh eyes. We look past the obvious to bring the best talent, tech, and ideas together to completely transform how things get done. So bring your unique ideas, your entrepreneurial spirit, and your drive to succeed and get ready to be part of something bigger. Get ready to do the can't be done.

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Industry
IT & Software
Company Size
10,000+ employees
Headquarters
Reston, Virginia
Year Founded
2017
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